Learn to use Google Earth and add technological richness across the content areas in grades 1-2 with this highly engaging, easy-to-use resource that offers flexibility for authentic 21st century learning. This teacher-friendly book provides step-by-step instructions, lessons, and activities that integrate this technology into social studies, science, mathematics, and English language arts curriculum. All lessons are differentiated for a variety of learning styles and activities are leveled for all learners. In addition, suggestions for flexible groupings and for extension activities are also included. Using Google Earth(tm): Bring the World Into Your Classroom shows teachers how to help their students start their own .kmz folders and fill them with layers of locations that connect their own lives to the curriculum, and to build cross-curricular connections. The included Teacher Resource CD includes templates plus clear, easy-to-follow directions to lead students (and teachers) to see a global view by starting with their own neighborhoods and then moving outward. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and supports core concepts of STEM instruction.
TESOL Standards Lesson Content Area Standard 1 All lessons All content areas
To use English to communicate in social settings: Students will use English to
participate in social interactions. All lessons All content areas To use English to
communicate in social settings: Students will interact in, through, and with spoken
and written English for personal expression and enjoyment. All lessons All
content areas To use English to communicate in social settings: Students will use
learning ...
Help students write about science content! This 2nd edition resource was created to support Common Core State Standards, and provides an in-depth research base about literacy instruction, and includes key strategies to help students write and comprehend science content. Offers detailed approaches and activities with classroom examples by grade ranges (1-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12) and includes graphic organizer templates and digital resources to help teachers implement quickly and easily. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction are also provided to help English language learners, gifted students, and below-grade-level students.
This 2nd edition resource was created to support College and Career Readiness Standards, and provides an in-depth research base about content-area literacy instruction, including key strategies to help students write about and comprehend ...
Help budding scientists get it "write" with this treasure-trove of ready-to-implement strategies to help learners write and understand science content. This resource brings it all together in one easy-to-use format featuring an overview of the writing process, practical and detailed strategies to improve writing skills, and activities with classroom examples by grade ranges. Specific suggestions are included with every strategy to help differentiate instruction for various levels of learners and learning styles. Includes a Teacher Resource CD of activity reproducibles and graphic organizers. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards and is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 208 pages + CD
Help budding scientists get it "write" with this treasure-trove of ready-to-implement strategies to help learners write and understand science content.
Help learners in grades 1-8 get it "write" with practical strategies to help them write and understand mathematics content. This resource is designed in an easy-to-use format providing detailed strategies, graphic organizers, and activities with classroom examples by grade ranges. Specific suggestions for differentiating instruction are included with every strategy for various levels of readers and learning styles. 208pp. plus Teacher Resource CD.
To be successful, students must be able to comprehend the nonfiction material they encounter in textbooks, reference materials, and testing situations. The ability to interpret nonfiction information depends on the development of several key skills and strategies: Main Idea/Supporting Details Using Text Organizers Summarizing/Paraphrasing Using Parts of the Book Developing Vocabulary Making Inferences Prior Knowledge/Making Connections Setting the Purpose Author's Point of View Questioning Structural Patterns Visualizing This systematic approach to reading instruction, coupled with repeated exposure to a wide variety of nonfiction reading materials, provides a structure in which students can achieve significant growth. Each book has a CD with graphic organizers (for use with Inspiration ) and activity templates (for use with Microsoft Word ).
Students need a variety of strategies to be successful readers. Successful
Strategies for Reading in the Content Areas contains a variety of reading
strategies that will help increase comprehension. This book has grouped the
strategies and ...
Enhance instruction with an in-depth understanding of how to incorporate word roots into vocabulary lessons in all content areas. Suitable for K-12 teachers, this book provides the latest research on strategies, ideas, and resources for teaching Greek and Latin roots including prefixes, suffixes, and bases to help learners develop vocabulary, improve their comprehension, and ultimately read more effectively. Ideas on how to plan and adapt vocabulary instruction for English language learners are also included to help achieve successful results in diverse classrooms.
To create the Scattergories matrix, put several letters along one dimension of the matrix and a list of four or five categories that can generate many words (e.g.,
vegetables, countries, animals). The categories can be general or developed
from ...
Developed by renowned author Ellin Keene, Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies is an ideal tool for assessing students' reading comprehension. This book offers a unique way of assessing how students use thinking strategies to comprehend text. The book contains four reading passages for each grade level (1-8) that offer high-interest fiction and nonfiction text. Each assessment is accompanied by a rubric that allows you to document students' thinking and then score and monitor their growth. Strategies assessed include thinking aloud, using schema, inferring, asking questions, determining importance in text, setting a purpose for reading, monitoring comprehension, visualizing, synthesizing and retelling, and story structure/structural patterns. The assessments can be used in various ways to inform instruction and to assess learning. All passages, assessments, and rubrics are provided on the Teacher Resource CD and the assessments and rubrics can be customized.
Because much of students' exposure to new words occurs as they read, making
use of the context to understand unknown words is an essential word-learning
strategy. Furthermore, the use of context will be helpful to students who look at ...
Integrate academic vocabulary instruction into content-area lessons with this engaging new resource for Level 5, which provides teachers with 12 easy-to-implement strategies for teaching academic vocabulary. Included are 25 step-by-step standards-based lessons that each incorporate two vocabulary strategies. Also included are activity pages and assessments, an answer key, and a Teacher Resource CD. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards. 176pp.
Integrate academic vocabulary instruction into content-area lessons with this engaging new resource for Level 5, which provides teachers with 12 easy-to-implement strategies for teaching academic vocabulary.
"Integrate academic vocabulary instruction into grade 1 content-area lessons with this engaging new resource. Included are 25 step-by-step standards-based lessons that help develop content-area academic vocabulary and oral language in math, science, reading, writing, and social studies. Also included are sample word lists, activity pages, and assessments. This resource supports college and career readiness and is aligned to today's standards."
This series, Academic Vocabulary: 25 Content-Area Lessons, provides ready-to-
use lessons that help teachers develop effective strategies that build vocabulary
and conceptual understanding in all content areas. Vocabulary knowledge is a ...
